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A Study to Asess the Health Seeking Behaviour and Quality of Life among Multipara Women Having Urinry Incontinence at Selected Community of Gwalior

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A Study to Asess the Health Seeking Behaviour and Quality of Life among Multipara Women Having Urinry Incontinence at Selected Community of Gwalior


Mrs. Pragya Singh | Prof. (Mrs.) Mini Anil



Mrs. Pragya Singh | Prof. (Mrs.) Mini Anil "A Study to Asess the Health Seeking Behaviour and Quality of Life among Multipara Women Having Urinry Incontinence at Selected Community of Gwalior" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4, June 2022, pp.1261-1272, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50299.pdf

Background A women or a mother faces a lot of problems as she goes through the period of pregnancy and childbirth. Urinary Incontinence (UI) is a relatively common condition in middle-aged and older women. Although it is not a life-threatening condition, UI negatively impacts health related quality of life (QOL) by affecting daily living activities, sexual and interpersonal relationship, psychological wellbeing and social interaction. UI affects from 15-50% of community dwelling women of all ages. Women who undergo repeated vaginal delivery have a great risk for developing Urinary incontinence. Hence the investigator had taken up a study to assess the health – seeking behaviour and quality of life among multipara women having urinary incontinence at selected community of Gwalior. Objectives To identify the health seeking behaviour of multipara women having urinary incontinence. To determine the quality of life of multipara women having urinary incontinence. To find the association of health-seeking behaviour scores with selected demographic variables. To find the association of quality of life scores with selected demographic variable. Method Descriptive design was used for the study. The study was carried out in selected rural community at Mangalore. A sample consisted of 60 multipara women who met the inclusive criteria and the sample was selected using purposive sampling technique. Formal written permission was obtained from the authorities of the concerned PHC; informed was obtained from multipara women a conduct the study. The health-seeking behaviour score was obtained using structured questionnaire and quality of life of women with urinary incontinence was determined be a structured rating scale. The data collection was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. An information pamphlet is given to subject after data collection. Result The demographic data revealed that majority of the women (46%) were in the age group of 51 or above years. Around half of women (46%) had delivered more than tree and some (30%) delivered thrice, majority of women (54%) had primary school education, and most of the women (70%) were unskilled workers. Majority of the women (64%) had normal vaginal delivery. Most of the women (55%) had a family income of < 2000. The health –seeking behaviour was average (53.3%) for majority of the women, about 25% had good health-seeking behaviour, and the rest had poor health-seeking behaviour. The overall health-seeking behaviour was average with SD1.873. Most of the women (71%) had mild urinary incontinence with mean 5.28, median 4.00, and SD 13.99. There was no significant association of quality of life score with selected demographic variables like age, number of deliveries, educational status, occupation, and monthly income. Interpretation and Conclusion finding of the study showed that multipara women had average health-seeking behaviour and average quality of life. The findings of this study suggest that awareness programmes should be conducted among the mother for the promotion of preventing health action against urinary incontinence.

Multipara women; urinary incontinence, health-seeking behaviour, quality of life


IJTSRD50299
Volume-6 | Issue-4, June 2022
1261-1272
IJTSRD | www.ijtsrd.com | E-ISSN 2456-6470
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

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